On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Joe Sutherland <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey all, > > I think this has been proposed before on this list, but I'm bringing it up > again :) > > We could potentially borrow DYK entries from Wikipedia's front page for > use on social. Here's some benefits to this: > > - It's cheap, and requires only the avoidance of anything > controversial/potentially promotional, > - It's a good way to keep our social feeds active, > - Wikipedia articles generally do very well on social media, as > Michael can attest, and > - It's a great way to get more eyes on newly improved articles, which > is good for the community. > > Some of them might need to be trimmed, but this is a potential one for > Facebook as an example: > • that the woman in Vilhelm Hammershøi's Interior with Young Woman Seen > from the Back is the painter's wife, whom he often painted facing away from > the viewer? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interior_with_Young_Woman_Seen_from_the_Back > > What do we think of this? (Forgive me if we already have an answer for > this!) > > best, > Joe > > -- > *Joe Sutherland* > Communications Intern [remote] > m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: > JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)> > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media ok, in an attempt to bump this thread to restart conversation (if any) and flag it for Jeff's thoughts I realized that there is no good way to bump the thread because almost every email you'd respond to would have different amounts of context sitting in in the quoted portions and you'd generally just be massively confused if you hadn't seen the full thread ( we were all responding to different people, cutting out/quoting different people etc). So attempting to be as fair as possible i'm just responding to Joe's email and basically restarting it :) Also for the uninitiated among the active participants (which I know includes more then just Jeff but also people like Greg who have been active but not on here then) a tldr (apologies to those who didn' t make the highlights): - You can read the full thread in the archives starting from here <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/social-media/2015-August/003193.html> . - Joe emailed out a proposal for using English Wikipedia main page DYKs as a rich source of ongoing information (see above for the good reasoning) - I responded with some history of when we thought about this before (Tilman did as well a bit later) and suggested that we advertise why we're doing it with a 'launch' blog post about the DYK curation process on wiki (which we can then use occasionally to explain the posts). [this was later +1'd by Tilman/Joe/a couple others] - I made an community inside joke about a dark time in the DYK history <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-09-24/News_and_notes> which Joe, Ed and I then felt the need to explain to everyone. - Discussion amongst everyone about keeping it lean and reusing the already written leads from WP as much as possible and a side discussion talking about what types of stats to use. James Alexander Manager Trust & Safety Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
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